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Intimations.

A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.,

Established AD. 1841.

FAMILY, DISPENSING

CHEMISTS.

* GENERAL

WHOLESALE And Retail DRUGGISTS,

PERFUMERS.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1889.

referred to above. Let us briefly glance Launch Co.'s three fairly good steamers through it.

The meeting was the ordinary one,

on all material points.

Importers and Exporters of MANILA CIGARS. to give some totally uncalled-for parti-indulgence in oratorical licence. Mr.

SEEDSMEN.

WINE and SPIRIT MERCHANTS. PATENT MEDICINE PROPRIETORS

'and

··MANUFACTURERS of AERATED WATERS.

BUSINESS ADDRESSES: THE HONGKONG (DISPENSARY, HONGKONG.

THE SHANGHAI DISPENSARY; SHANGHAI,

But Mr. JNo. J. FRANCIS, Q.C. reached the held in accordance with the requirements highest summit of blatant balderdash when of the local Ordinance, and it was not he held out hopes of the Hongkong Govern- in any way incumbent on the Chairman ment paying a subsidy to the Steam Launch to give the slightest explanation regarding Co. for the use of their launches as patrol the Company's business. Mr. FRANCIS, or guard boats in the event of war." for reasons best known to himself, elected This could only have been an extra

culars as to what had been done in FRANCIS knows as well as any man in this the past and what was proposed to be colony that the Hongkong Government done in the future, and by so doing will neither subsidise nor grant any sort made himself a target for public criticism. of a monopoly either to his or to any other According to Mr. FRANCIS, the Directors-trading company. If the Steam Launch Heaven help them considered it advis Company happen to have vessels sulted to able at the meeting in question to direct Government requirements in such under- attention to two facts. The first of these takings as the construction of the Gap Rock facts was that, although on the formation lighthouse or the Praya reclamation scheme, of the Company it was intended before they may secure profitable charters; but commencing business to wait until the new beyond that the prospect is quite hope- steamers were built, the Directors thought less, Are we to assume that this it would be advisable "to occupy the field as warlike nonsense is attributable to the quickly as possible, and "at the same time fact that three of the four Directors of the feel their way to business during the six Steam Launch Co. are, or have been months or so, while the new steamers were officers of the Hongkong Volunteer being got ready." And at an outlay of Artillery and have, moreover, important $13,000-and the rest they had invested territorial interests in the peninsula of in three fairly good steamers." Bush Kowloon. It looks remarkably like it. The three fairly good steamers" are at Gentlemen, your policy is altogether too their best second rate steam launches, one transparent to find favor with the thinking of which had been rejected as unsuitable public. ' : and returned to the builder by the local firm for whom it was originally. built. Perhaps these three boats were cheap at $13.000, but all the same it would be interesting-far more interesting than Mr. FRANCIS' crude speculations-tó know how much was expended on their fitting up." We are told that two of these launches have been put on the line as equal to any Soap made, may be used on the ferry boats to Kowloon and Hungham

THE HONGKONG DISPENSARY,

TIENTSIN.

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THERE will be a game of Polo at Causeway Bay to-morrow, al 4′′p.m.,

FRENCH papers report that General Boulanger voted against the Tonquin credit.

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GENERAL CHANÚ, in command of the first Brigade of the army of occupation of Tonquin, arrived at Haiphong a fortnight ago,

"Was it the girl's father who broke off the engagement P" inquired Jenkins. "No," replied the jilted lover, "it was her little brother."

Tнa lady at Wong No Kok who had a difference with a neighbor and set fire to her house as a final argument, was committed for trial this morning.

A CONTEMPORARY says it is likely that the

breach of promise suit of Phyllis Broughton, the actress, against Lord Dangan will be com promised by a trifte of £15,000.

A REGULAR meeting of Victoria Lodge, No. 1016, will be held in Freemasons' Hall, Zetland Street, this evening, at 8.30 for 9 o'clock precisely, Visiting brethren are cordially invited.

Messrs. Carlowitz & Co. inform us that the steamship Bisogno, of the Navigazione Generale Italiana, left Singapore for this port to-day, and may be expected on or about the 19th inst.

D. EUGENIO NETTER, a Manila priest, has been elected to fill the post of Vicur-Apostolic of Manila, pending the appointment of another Archbishop, to succeed the late D. Fr. Pedro Payo.

We have said that Mr. FRANCIS has a a great deal special facility for saying that means nothing. We might also have added that he is in the habit of saying a great deal that would very much better, have been left unsaid, Does our energetic Q.C. imagine that he was strengthening the position of the Steam Launch Co., when he volun- teered the information that the second call on 242 shares out of a total of 2000 shares still remained unpaid, although the scrip was nominally quoted at something. like 20 per cent. premium i And why,|MANIĻA papers report the arrival of Mr. Kiso when so persistently, on the stump, did not katsu Oshuciaru, the representative of an the Chairman explain why the Company's influential firm in Yokohamaa, who is endeavouring to establish commercial connections with the shares had jumped, without any cause apparent to the general body of share- Spanish firms in the Philippines.

The four men who were caught by Inspector Mackie in First Street early in December, with 23 counterfeit dollars in their possession,

were yesterday sentenced to two years imprison. ment each.

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THERE will be a regular meeting of the Eothien THE P. M. S. S. Co.'s steamer City of New Mark Lodge of Hongkong, No. 264, in Free-Fork, with maiis; &o, from San Francisco to the masons' Hall, Zetland Street, on Monday, the 29th ulto., has arrived at Yokohama, and will 28th instant, at 8.30 for 9 p.m. precisely. Visiting | leave for this port to-morrow. brethren are cordially invited.

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THE schooner Governor Amrs, of Somerset,

TRUS the Sydney Bulletin on Mr. Quong Tart: Mass., the largest and only five-masted centre-

-It is thought by some of the Chinese residents of Sydney that Quong Tart, will meet with some thornis in the Flowery Land. His countrymen do unt all consider that his influence in Australia has been used to the best purpose." Quong Tart will be asked to explain what he meant by saying some time ago that there were Chinamen, enough in Australin, and will be interrogated as to his diffuse liberality towards Europeans and his sober economies when Asiatica were the

objects. There are Chinamen in Sydney who say he ought to be ling-chi'd.

board schooner ever built, which has been in process of construction for the past four months at Waldboro, Me., was launched. December 1st. Her dimensions, are: Length of keel, 232 feet; depth of hold, z1 feet ; gross tonnage, 1778; net tonnage, 1689. She has one of the largest wind- lasses ever built and an engine of 35-horse power. The schooner is designed to run between Baltimore and Providence in the coal trade. Her cost will be about $80,000.

WE fear, if the following story be true, the Parisian misses in their teens are a very, very rapid race of damsels just now. Such as it is, however, young Malle. Lucie's governess vouches for its authenticity; and, in fact, was the ' discreet monitor whose duty it was to instruct young Lucizin Scripture history. The apocryphal tale of Susanna's virtuous rebutt to the elders had just been imparted; and Lucie looked very thoughtful." "Yes," she remarked presently, "t was very right of Susana to refuse to have any thing to say to two stupid old fogies-1 would have done the same in her place!"

SAYS the New York Maritime Register :-It is estimated that over one hundred and sixty million dollars are paid annually for the ocean carriage of our exports and imports, of which amount American ship-owners receive about twenty millions and foreign ship-owners one hundred and forty millions. If these figures were reversed the country would not only gain the additional amount of freight money, but there would be also the immediate and great benefit of profitable employment for a large number of workingmen needed in the many industries connected with shipping and which would be LAST night a mestizo seaman named Clemente engaged in the earning of this great revenue,

Marcel, belonging, to the American barque Escort, got mad drunk, and ran down Laicar THE other day a gentleman was looking into a Row with the intention of sending up the rates jeweller's shop window in Bond Street, London, of interment, Like the Malays, when they cry when one of the light-fingered members of "Amok," he selected an unoffensive old fellow Society relieved him of his watch. A moment as bis first victim.. A Chinaman was chopping later, in utter ignorance of the loss he had sus-wood, and Marcel's knife laid his left hand open tained, the gentleman noticed a friend on the to the bond. A Chinese constable heard the opposite side of the road, with handkerchief wood-chopper's cries, and seized Marcel, who hanging out of his pocket. For a joke be quietly succeeded in tearing himself free, but did not walked up behind him, and took possession of, wound the lakong, P.C. and“ 283; and m- he handkerchief. He was separated for a Chinese watchman gave fase, and a desperate moment by the press of people from his friend, struggle ensued. P.E. I had his hand when a man slipped, a watch into his hand, badly cut in trying to wrest the knife from whispering as he did so, "I beg your pardon, him, and the other constable's trousers were ld fellow; I had no idea you were one of us, slashed up, but only a scratch was inflicted. or, of course, I would not have taken it." "It The watchman would have had a deep wound in was the thief thus restoring the watch he had the side if he had not had a thick wadded coat stolen.

on. Ultimately they secured the man, and he was put into a cell. This morning he was brought before Mr. Pollock, and after denying the charge was remanded. He had the nerve to ask for bail, and was promptly refused.-The first lukong and wood-catter are in Hospital. By his recent answer to the Berlin civic officers, in which he complained bitterly of the license allowed to the Liberal press in discussing the late Emperor's policy as compared with his own, the Emperor has drawn a hornets' nest about his ears. The Liberal journals are justly indignant that the Court newspapers are allowed full license at this covert attack on their privileges and retort in their virulent attacks upon their opponents, The Boersen Courier writes: "It was not wo who asserted that, supposing the Emperor Frederick's, alleged diary to be a forgery, its publication was to be regarded as an insult to the memory of the dead. It was not we who

SOR, WHITE WINDSOR, HONEY AND Assertion by the unerring evidence of holders, from 20 per cent, discount to 35 FROM statistics recently collected in Brazil, it such contrivances are needed, and most of all by

ROSE.

(Telephone No. 60.)

22, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL, 'Hongkong, 17th January, 1889.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS,

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Later on Badocial matten to be sent to "The Editor and

mos individual members of the inf

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be open for the file decision by exerciperelents of al questions Whilst the columns of the Hienghong Telegraph will always

affecing public Interests," II must be distinctly understood that the Editor does not in any way hold himaĉif responsible for splakna thus exproved,

TO ADVERTISERS.

not to retard the endy publication of the paper,

The Hongkong Telegraph has the largest circulation of any English newspaper published to the Far East, and is therefore the

shareholders i

respectively, and that the third, the Bonni, is being profitably used as a despatch boat. As we don't know what a "despatch boat" may happen to be in the colony of Hongkong, we are unable to guess how the Bonnie makes profitable returns to the shareholders," "but no doubt Mr. FRANCIS will be able to support his statistics at the first regular meeting of If it is true, which we most respectfully beg to doult, that the Company's launches have shown a clear profit since they commenced to run, we should like to know the amount of that profit and how it was earned. If the Directors were not in a position to give these particulars, Mr. Francis would have exercised a wise discretion in limiting his remarks to the requirements of the Companies' Ordinance. The Directors launches. Then, in the name of Heaven; do not intend to compete against Chinese

what do they intend to do? Mr. FRANCIS says they propose to run boats where

per cent. premium? What member of the Board, it would be interesting to know, disclosed to his friends and made practical use of this valuable information? We have a list of the shares sold, and at the proper time--the first ordinary meeting of the Company-shall have the same produced and a few leading questions asked.

There has been too much in this colony of the very safe game of playing with other people's money. What, after all, is this Steam Launch Company? For what object

holders ought to satisfy themselves on these was it formed, and by whom? Share-

points if they have any desire to safeguard their own interests. How is it conducted,

game

would appear that. by virtue of the law of the 13th May last which decreed the abolition of slavery throughout the Empire the number of liberated slaves was 723,419, aggregating a value of milreis 485,225,211.534 or about 500 million

dollars.

OUR Hanoi contemporary reports that a body of pirates one thousand strong lately took up a position near Bac-ninh and were waiting for re-inforcements in order to attack the city of Hai-duong. The French authorities on learning their intentions took energetic measures to cause them to disperse, but fears are entertained

of fresh troubles arising in the neighbourhood of Bac ninh.

A SIMPLE and eficient device has been in use for several years in France which relieves a horse from the severe strain that accompanies he starting of a heavy load. In cities'especially the usually, overdriven street-car horse. The device consists in a spital spring of power in proportion to the average load carried, and which is attached to the end of the trace. The horses at the Eastern Railway Depot in Paris, where the springs have been used for six years that time in general soundness of condition, in shifting cars, show an improvement since while the number of sore and strained necks have greatly diminished. There has also been a large saving in the way of broken harness: The same idea has been applied to ploughing

harness.

AMONG the latest orders issued by Emperor insertion in that day's issus not later than Thres o Clock so as well-fitted boats are required. Well, we of view, are its prospects? The fanciful other great garrison towns, under penalty of five

Advertisers are requested to forward all antlers intended for there is European traffic, and where clean, and what, from a thoroughly business point William is one prohibiting officers in Berlin and Consuls in which some very specious argu-policy, as it was feared that he might.com- Advertisements and Subscriptions which are not ordered for a should like to know where such craft are sketch drawn in such claquent terms by Mr.days' arrest, from using civilian dress when off Grad period will be continued until countermanded,

specially required, and why the dozer of FRANCIS, Q.C. We smile. And so would duty. The custom has been growing among officers to throw aside their military garb upon Chinese launches, which are in every way the learned barrister if he knew the s equal if not superior to the Launch Com- he has backed up by all the power of every possible occasion. This does pot meet Emperor William's aim, his object being to pany's "three fairly good steamers," should his natural eloquence and could only see glorify military functions. not have their share of this presumed good the illogical deductions of his crude argu- Subscribers to The Hongkong Telegrain overally thing, especially as they can be chartered ments,

Has any confiding shareholder at a very much lower rate 1, Perhaps, the perused the powers invested in these self- learned Chairman of the Steam Launch appointed Directors by sub-section of |

best medium for Advarslaert. Terme can be learnt an application. The Hongkong Telegraph's number at the Telephoca Central

Exchange le No. 3,

TO SUBSCRIBERS.

resilidad that all Subscriptiïne are payable in advaneri

The

Hongkong Telegraph Company thinks that the patriotic Britisher chapter ta of the Company's Articles of

HONGKONG, TUESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1889.

will pay $20 for a "fairly good steamer "bossed" by Mr. Jno, J. Francis, Q.C.

Tan following is an extract from an advertise- ment appearing lately on the front page of a London daily paper:

Company. Director" Supply Company (Limited-This noblemen and gentlemen, and is prepared to supply single company has acquired the life interest in a large number of directors or full boards on ressonable terms, Apply, &c.

We have something very like a “Director

exceedingly limited. the supply (vide, the Hongkong Directory) is

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THR Foochow Echo of the 19th inat, says We said this, but Prince Bismarck. It was again understand that the Viceroy is taking vigorous not we, but Prince Bismarck, who gave out steps to cust the foreign residents from Kuliang that Kaiser Friedrich, when Crown Prince A despatch has been addressed to all the had to be kept aloof from esoteric affairs of ments were advanced against converting Kullang mit the indiscretion" (of betraying state into a health resort.

Of course, the surrender secrets) "to an English court full of French of one of the residences was made capital of by sympathies. It was not we, but Professor the Viceroy, who regarded it as tantamount to Treitschke, who called the reign of the Emperor an admission on the part of the owner that he Frederick a sad episode. It was not we who had no right to build upon the site. We hear described the Emperor Frederick as the greatest that the Consular body will meet in a few days obstacle to the unification of Germany, but the to consider and discuss the matter. It is Conservative Pest. It was not we who charse devoutly to be hoped that the question will be terized the Emperor Frederick as a political thoroughly thrashed out at the meeting and that Parsifal, but the Cologne Gaziti. It wa a manly stand will be taken by the Consuls on behalf of our Treaty rights. It may be taken of 'petticoat (Frauenzimmer) policy, and not we who spoke of a Battenberg marriage,

for ons, will fight the case to the bitter end. for granted that the energetic Russian Consul, Anglomania, but the extreme Conservative and Cartel press. We should never have dared

and his little army of obsequious satellites, three out of the four self-constituted | Supply Company, Limited" in Hongkong, and THE views entertained by this journal on sundry to say and do such things, not from fear of pune:

Association? Are the legitimate investors in this Steam Launch Company aware that

and add to the shareholders' liabilities Directors had actually agreed to take over

an engineering establishment well known

public affairs of the neighbouring colony of us in particular, but out of respect for the wester ishment, which would assuredly have overtaken Macao bave, as a rule, brought on us the of the crown, who remains sacred and unassail. undivided obloquy of the Holy City. It would able for us even during mortal illness and after

THERE is no public man in this colony capable of approaching Mr. JNo. JA FRANCIS, Q.C. within measurable distance in the difficult art of making lengthy the only marvel is that such an idiotic in the colony-and for what? And JUSTICE in Hongkong has several iron bards, appear that the newspapers published in the death as well. Our opposition has to do with

beiter launch from Chinese at about $7? in preference to chartering a very much

If so, he will very soon find out his mistake;

proposition could have been advanced at a public meeting by men who pretend to know anything about the rudiments of

business.

that the fourth Director alone stood in the way of this pretty little job of course not! the shareholders went into the business like driven sheep, and they are being treated very much like that greatly abused animal.

of varying weight. You may black an informer's eye for nothing, which is quite right; you may dump a junk load of dirt into the Harbour. for a drunk and treat a native policeman like the dollar or two, which is cheap, and you can get individual who "struck O'Hara" was used for But what we say is a ridiculous trifle, but if you pretend to be lame nevertheless trae, and it only shows on and beg from Europeans in Queen's Road East what an uncertain foundation this Company, you can't do it under $8. So Mr. Pollock thought, although directed by legal minds, is based.to-day, with respect to a previously-deported AS to the future of the Steam Launch Co. pgan. there can be very little doubt. The sanguine anticipations of Mr. FRANCIS and his satellites are pure rubbish'; the Company will lose half its capital and then it will find it convenient to close operations and liquidate-unless the shareholders should take it into their heads to dispense with the services of the present Directorate and Management and run the business on purely Chinese lines, that is providing a good article at the lowest possible price.

speeches which either mean nothing or something very different from the ordinary signification of the terms used. And it may be doubted whether the learned gentleman has ever excelled his most

Mr. Fancis says.that the working of recent effort in this direction-we refer to the Company's launches for four months, his speech at the meeting of the share- up to the end of December, showed a holders of the Steam Launch Company, small profit, after paying the cost of We love Mr. FRANCIS Limited, held on Thursday last. To management. begin with, it is certainly unique, if about as much as David loved JONATHAN, not altogether unheard of, to find a and therefore it almost breaks our tender barrister-at-law, and a Queen's Counsel heart to have to doubt the accuracy of our to boot, who is actively practising his learned friend's assertion. But we do profession, posing in the role of Chairman doubt it and that very gravely, and venture of a joint stock company and "boss" of to think that If the Chairman felt it his a trading enterprise; but in this as in other duty to deal with the subject at all, he matters Mr. FRANCIS has cut out an ought to have quoted statistics in proof of Independent line of his own and summarily his official statement. ignored the time-honored traditions of the The Directors of the Steam Launch English bar, whilst availing himself of its Company, we repeat, do not intend to valuable and exclusive privileges to the compete on strictly Chinese lines with utmost. And, moreover, with that blunt,Chinese boats. Their intention is to "outspoken frankness, which is one of this run launches where there is European clever pleader's most potent weapons traffic, and where clean, well-fitted when addressing a jury, Mr. FRANCIS has boats are required. But as there is frequently admitted his lack of practical no European traffic at present on the knowledge concerning commercial matters southern coast of China, and as when and his shortcomings when ranging within that traffic comes-which come it must- the wide domain of figures, which makes the Directors of the, Steam Launch Com- his position of manager of this local pany will be left floundering on the mud faunch business all the more inexplicable, of their own combined ignorance and. And it seems to us that no better evidence egotism, we fail to recognise a hopeful could be found of his unfitness for the outlook. To run ferry launches against a task he has, with doubtless the best well organised Chinese opposition is simply Intentions, imposed upon himself, than the a hopeless game, and it is all the more lengthy statement he felt called upon to hopeless when the Chinese launches at make to the shareholders on the occasion | present running can discount the Steam | and Miss Cobden for Bow:

TELEGRAMS,

(Reuter.)

PARLIAMENTARY.

"LONDON, January 20th.

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A BAKIR'S DUZZEN UV WIZE SAWZ.. Them ez wants, must choose. Them az hez, must lose, Them et knows, won't blab. Them ez guessca, will gab. Them ez borrOWS, SOTTOWE, Them et lends, spends, Them ez keeps dark is deep. Them ex kin carn, kin keep. Them et aims, hits. Them ez hez, gits, Them ez watts, win, Them at will, kin.

A WRITER in the Home Journal Boys :-Travel in Corsica and enter whatever house you will-a shepherd's hut, a peasant's cottage, the doctor's apartment, or Monsieur le Mairo's fine stone building-you will find the womankdad keeping in the background, just visible in a faint chiar oscuro. At meal times wives and daughters will not sit down with the guests. Mothers and daughters are either entirely absent or hovering about as your attendants. This is an uncomfort able feature of the entertainment, but woe to the luckless wight who shows restiveness under these circumstances and awkwardly hazards an inquiry as-to the ladies destiny. His inquiries will be Lady Sandhurst has been elected for Brixton entirely ignored, or he will be frowned upon into

rather uncomfortable illence,

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A Separatist has defeated a Unionist Govan, [This is a seat gained for the Gladstone Party, Sir William Pearce, the late member, having been a Tory-Ed.] [/

THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL- ELECTIONS.

SUPREME COURT.

IN SUMMARY JURISDICTION, (Before the Chief Justice.);

Lusitanian emporium are as intolerant of public criticism as the clergy who rile or pervert the the Government, not the sovereign." destinies of that degraded city, are intolerant of treatment meted out to us by the Lisbon press. all contradiction, Far different has been the The Secule, the Formal das Colonias, the Commercio and other organs of public opinion in the Portuguese capital have reproduced most of our strictures on Macao, and called the attention of the Portuguese Government to the urgent requirements of that colony. Our neigh.: bours would do well to estimate the true valis of freedom of opinion and the rules of journalistic. etiquette from newspapers of their our nationality; before they rash into Anglophobism and advised censure.

TALBOT V. THE CHINĂ AND MANILA, STEAM- SHIP CO. This was a claim brought by Capt. Talbot now of the Nassing, and late of the Zafiro, for $1,500, due to him as his share of the salvage of the steamship Gleamavis in 1884-Mr. Robia- son Instructed by Mr. Stokes, appeared for the plalatiff," and "Mr. Francia, Ingiructed by Mr. Wilson, represented the defendant Company

render every assistance, Mr. Robinson then called the plaintif

THE Sentinel, the organ of the Social Purity

Mr. Robinson briefly outlined, the nature of movement, says :-It has been discovered that the claim, as supported by the evidence a market exists in Constantinople in which given below. He was proceeding to review the European girls, imported for the purpose from legal aspects of the case when it occurred to bli Germany, Austria, Italy, and Russia, are publicly Mr, Francis said that he did the agreement. to ask Mr. Francis if he admitted the salvage, sold as slaves. The matter is said to have been being to stand by, tow to Hongkong, and duly authenticated, and is now occupying the attention of the Embassies. The statement is

Robert Maliland Talbot, who said -1 am that every week large shipments of German and Italian girls arrive via Varna, Odessa, Salonica, master of the Nasing."" In May, 1884 I wa and from the Adriatic ports. The girls are Manila. On the morning of the 31st: 1" WAN master of the Zafiro on a voyage from Amoy to landed in small boats at the Turkish quarantine called by the chief officer, who reported a steamer station at Kawak, whence they are brought flying the signal for urgent assistance. The overland through Bujakdere into Constantinople.. Zufro war steered alongside, and the captain and None are aware of the fate in store for them, her to be the Glenmaels, from Newcastle, New chief engineer came on board. They reported having been lured to undertake the drip to the South Wales, to Hongkong, laden with coal Turkish capital by means of promises of munt-They said the shaft had broken and they had Scent remuneration as governesses, planistes, been lying there 180 20 days, and wanted me to and other forms of respectable and honourable to them to Hongkong I pointed out that I employment. On arsing, they are taken to going to Manila, but the captain said that he wa toa utterly belpless having no materials for repair place which goes by the name offthe "Casino," ing on board, and its stock of food low- After and which is nothing more for less than 30 mome discussion I agreed to tow her for £1,600, exchange or mart where human cattle are dealt the north-east monsoon was blowing, and there in as breadstufft on the Produce Exchange in considerable difficulty, in connecting the rental, was a good deal of sen running, so that we hid

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New York.

the cables breaking repeatedly. We had grea